The Waiver Wire is the talent marketplace built for HR leaders navigating workforce change. Get top talent before the competition and help exiting team members land on their feet.
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Every year, companies spend billions cutting talented employees. The company loses institutional knowledge. The employee loses income. The brand takes a hit that shows up in Glassdoor reviews for years. There is a better way.
The true cost of a layoff goes far beyond severance. Legal fees, productivity loss, institutional knowledge drain, manager bandwidth, and future rehiring costs. Add it up and your CFO won't sleep well.
Laying someone off doesn't make the work disappear. Within months, most companies are posting the same role they just eliminated, paying to recruit, interview, and onboard all over again.
In the age of Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and viral Reddit threads, a poorly handled layoff doesn't stay quiet. Top candidates avoid your next posting. Remaining employees quietly update their resumes.
Imagine how differently the layoff conversation would go if you could offer the outgoing employee several offers from other companies.
In professional sports, when a team can't keep a player on their roster, they put them on waivers. Other teams claim that talent and put them straight to work. Nobody wastes a good player. Nobody loses unnecessarily. We built the same system for the modern workforce.
When your headcount needs to change, list the employees you can't retain. Profiles are anonymized and skills-forward, protecting dignity while showcasing real talent to companies actively looking to hire.
Hiring companies browse available talent and request matches based on skills, experience, and fit. No job boards, no cold outreach. Just real candidates who are ready to move.
We make the introduction. The rest is between you. Once a match is made, both parties connect directly and handle their own agreements. No intermediary in the room, just a warm intro and a clear path forward.
Layoffs get the headlines, but they're not the only time great talent ends up in the wrong place. Any time a player and a team aren't the right fit anymore, for any reason, The Wire gives everyone a better option than the pink slip.
Your best player just became your biggest line item. The person is excellent. The budget simply can't hold them anymore. That's not a performance issue. That's cap math. The Wire lets them find a team that can pay what they're worth, without burning the relationship on the way out.
You've got a great person in the wrong role. They came up through one function but they're clearly built for another. The work suffers, the employee stagnates, and everyone can sense the misfit. The Wire finds them a team where their natural game gets played.
The org changed. The role is gone. But the person in that seat is still valuable. The restructure just didn't have a place for them. The Wire finds a team that does.
Here's what the current system actually costs.
Join the waitlist. We'll walk you through onboarding personally and make sure you're set up to get the most out of the platform.
Post employees you need to transition, or browse available talent from partner companies on the wire.
We introduce both sides. From there, you connect directly with the candidate or company and work out the details on your own terms.
Every transition on the platform teaches it something. Which skills transfer, which roles clear fastest, which matches stick. The Wire gets sharper with every move.
The platform automatically surfaces the most relevant candidates to hiring companies based on skills, experience, industry, and role requirements. No manual browsing required.
When a company lists an employee, AI generates an anonymized, skills-forward profile automatically, removing personal identifiers and tagging relevant skills so the right companies find them fast.
Before a hiring company commits to a claim, the platform scores likely fit based on company size, culture signals, industry, and role requirements, giving both sides better information before the introduction is made.
Before listing, releasing companies see real-time data on how quickly similar profiles have been claimed and at what compensation ranges, turning an uncertain decision into an informed one.
The more companies use The Wire, the smarter it gets.
We're building this with a small group of companies who get it. If that's you, let's talk.
We'll be in touch when early access opens. In the meantime, let your network know. The best teams are already paying attention.